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LandMarks #7 - Pateh, uma história inacabada

The LandMarks Series is a project about an Iranian identity, as a woman and also as a daughter of an iranian refugee. (father) It manifests itself at different times – past, present and future – and focuses on issues of identity, gender, territory, memory, archive, travel and family, exploring the field of visual arts, performance art and cuisine, the latter under the form of “Dinners-performance” based on ritual and gastronomic experiences. LandMarks #7 – Pateh, an unfinished story, is the first performance resulting from post-travel, which focuses on the offering of a sentimental heritage, a typical Kerman rug, embroidered, unfinished and left by my paternal grandmother before her death, with the aim of being delivered on the day of arrival in this territory. In this performance, an approach to paternal origins is reflected, enabling a (re)connection to a territory - which until then only existed in an idealized way fed by narratives and family memories - revealed either by the meditative interweaving of a crimson thread, or by the projection of an archival photograph found in family albums in Iran, either by activating aromas in boiling water with herbs sabzi, cardamom and dried lime, or by the vinyl background sound of Googoosh, the most acclaimed singer in then pre-revolution, Islamic Iran. This turning point served to deconstruct an entire imaginary created from a distance, exposing a range of new feelings and sensations that simultaneously provided the reconfiguration and reconstruction of identity as both a Portuguese and Iranian woman.

2020, Rebecca Moradalizadeh (Yasmine Moradalizadeh), LandMarks #7 - Pateh, uma história inacabada, 20 Volts. CRL – Central Elétrica, Porto. Photo: Gonçalo Pimenta.

Rebecca Moradalizadeh

Rebecca Moradalizadeh (b. 1989, London) is a Portuguese-Iranian visual artist, performer and art educator who lives and works in Porto. She holds a master's degree in Museological and Curatorial Studies and a degree in Fine Arts - Multimedia from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and attended the Erasmus program at Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom. Since 2010, she has presented her work in exhibitions, festivals, residencies and artist talks in Portugal and abroad. The areas she explores are performance, video, photography, installation and design, focusing on issues of the body, identity, memory, archive and vestiges. Of the projects created, the LandMarks Series stands out as an autobiographical project that reflects her Iranian identity through visual arts, performance and gastronomy. (inland-journal.com/jornal/658/)